Submission Results: I Done Good (Mostly)
Cocoinut
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I just received an e-mail from PCGS informing me of the results of a regular submission. All but one were coins that I had purchased back in the '70's. I wish I knew then what I know now!
1911-D cent MS64RD purchased 7-22-77 for $50 from Leon Hendrickson (Silvertowne), who had a whole ROLL of them he was breaking up!
1925-D cent MS64RD purchased 7-22-77 for $27. Steve Ivy had just looked at this coin, and passed on it.
The rest were a 1939 proof set that I bought on 01-10-70 for $140, which was a lot of money for a college kid, but it was well worth it.
1939 cent PR65RD
1939 nickel PR66
1939 dime PR65
1939 quarter PR65 (thought it would be a PR66)
1939 half PR65
All in all, I'm satisfied with the results, although I had also submitted an 1803 large cent that I thought looked like a nice strong VF, but was deemed to have "altered surfaces". I hope they can tell me more than that.
Now I have to wait another couple of months for about 20 coins sent in an economy submission. I guess that's OK; I wasn't planning on selling any of them soon.
Jim
1911-D cent MS64RD purchased 7-22-77 for $50 from Leon Hendrickson (Silvertowne), who had a whole ROLL of them he was breaking up!
1925-D cent MS64RD purchased 7-22-77 for $27. Steve Ivy had just looked at this coin, and passed on it.
The rest were a 1939 proof set that I bought on 01-10-70 for $140, which was a lot of money for a college kid, but it was well worth it.
1939 cent PR65RD
1939 nickel PR66
1939 dime PR65
1939 quarter PR65 (thought it would be a PR66)
1939 half PR65
All in all, I'm satisfied with the results, although I had also submitted an 1803 large cent that I thought looked like a nice strong VF, but was deemed to have "altered surfaces". I hope they can tell me more than that.
Now I have to wait another couple of months for about 20 coins sent in an economy submission. I guess that's OK; I wasn't planning on selling any of them soon.
Jim
Countdown to completion of my Mercury Set: 1 coin. My growing Lincoln Set: Finally completed!
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I would have been happy to have bought any mintmarked early Lincolns in the 1970's, but they seemed to be harder to find then than now. Slabs weren't around yet, so you really took a chance if you ordered anything through the mail; there were a lot of cleaned/recolored cents in the market. I preferred to buy sight-seen only, and found very few MS pre-1934 mintmarked cents at the local shows I attended. I could find the '09-S VDB, '09-S, and '10-S easily, but the 1911-1933 dates were tougher to locate. Certification and the internet have created more opportunities for both buying and selling.
I have a few more early Lincolns in the economy submission, including all of the "D" mints from 1917-1920, and a '17-S. They all cost between $30 and $45, and were purchased from 1973-1978. It'll be interesting to see what kinds of grades I get on those. The '17-S is razor sharp and borderline RB/RD IMO, but the '18-D, while full red, has a mushy strike. Quality control obviously was not a priority during those years. I'll post the results when I get them, probably sometime in October.
Jim